Monday, July 20, 2009

The perp in this case could act as a poster boy for cultural enrichment in Europe: a successful asylum-seeker from Africa, who entered the UK on a fake passport; a previous offender; and now the rapist of an 89-year old woman. Let’s celebrate diversity with Mauro Lopes!

The case is unusual in that the British police did their job properly and promptly, and caught the rapist using his own DNA. The elderly victim deserves a lot of credit for staying clear-headed enough under the most terrifying of circumstances to make sure that she obtained a usable DNA sample.

A rapist who posed as a policeman to get into his 89-year-old victim’s home was snared because she copied a scene from CSI and scratched his face for DNA.

Bouncer Mauro Lopes, 31, who weighs 20 stone, raped the frail seven-stone widow twice after tricking his way into her home in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

In the midst of her horrific ordeal she had the presence of mind to remember an episode of the cult U.S. forensics drama — and clawed his face knowing police would be able to retrieve his DNA from under her fingernails.

It allowed detectives to catch Lopes just two days after the attack on March 14 because he was already on the national database after a drink-driving offence in 2005.

Lopes, who won asylum after coming to the UK from Angola on a false passport seven years ago, was jailed for nine years at Leeds Crown Court yesterday.

Prosecuting, Felicity Davis said the attack — after Lopes put a large pillow over the woman’s face — was so violent that she had to be taken to hospital with heavy bleeding.

But the widow of 20 years managed to tell police: ‘I have been watching CSI so I scratched his face so you could get DNA from my fingernails.’

Unable now to live alone, she is in a care home but still has trouble sleeping. She cannot be identified for legal reasons.

Anne Dixon, defending, told the court that Lopes was remorseful and, in his own words, ‘had fallen out of his personality with drink’.

He carried out the attack following a visit to a lapdancing club after discovering his girlfriend was cheating on him.

Judge Peter Collier QC said his offences were ‘vile and extreme’ and added: ‘He is a 31-year-old man with all his faculties and his desires. He got drunk and did something unspeakable.’

Lopes had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of rape and one count of sexual assault. It is thought he will be deported at the end of his sentence.

Outside court Det Supt Steve Payne of West Yorkshire Police, who led the investigation, said: ‘I would like to pay my respect to the victim in this case who has acted with incredibly bravery despite the terrifying ordeal she suffered.

‘During the incident itself she even managed to scratch Lopes which helped us significantly with the investigation.

‘Lopes… had his DNA taken for a minor offence in 2005 and as such he was placed on the national DNA database which assisted my investigation greatly in bringing this man to justice.’

Not a lot mate. Hadn't you noticed that here in the UK we happily accept all the world's criminals, parasites and terrorists. Border Control? What a laugh.Even better we keep them here if they claim that they may be tortured or killed in their home countries.So the likes of Abu Hamza stay here and continue their plotting while we keep his large family on benefits. We grow them as well. Anjem Choudhary is kept on benefits while he, a lawyer, tours the country preaching hate and sedition.

If you've actually seen the programme about the Border Agency the illegals and asylum seekers smile broadly when they say they have no papers - meaning we have no idea where they should be sent. so they saty by default.

Zenster my friend, lookie here to find out, or remind yourself, of what other kind of trash has entered Britain on a false passport. Now lookie here to find out how the UK has been handling its (not his) presence on its soil (and don't miss Hugh Fitzgerald's comments under the second story. They simply couldn't have described anymore accurately what is wrong with what has allowed that outrage in the first place.)

Abu Qatada’s influence has extended from Mujahidin groups in Algeria and Chechnya in the past, to Iraq and Afghanistan more recently. As long ago as 1999 he was said to be on the al-Qaeda leadership’s religious affairs committee.

He arrived in Britain on a false passport in 1993 and was allowed to continue promoting jihadi ideology worldwide from his West London home and at study circles. Police arrested him in 2001 – seizing £180,000 cash believed to be destined for jihadi groups – but released him. [emphasis added]

Am I sensing a pattern here?

I am also obliged to note how the Law of Unintended Consequences reigns in full force now that Europe has so humanely outlawed the Death Penalty.

Some forms of human life are not meant to see daylight. Abu Qatada is among those types.